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The Council of War
To not litter the University Invasion thread with discussions on what to do after, I thought I'd start this think tank, with the most highly regarded members of the Junta, to ponder about our post-University military actions.
There are several courses we can follow. Unfortunately each of them has several disadvantages. So I was hoping we could discuss here what to do, and how to solve the problems surrounding our choice.
A first option, heavily supported by Googlie, is to go after Lal. This would give us vast tracks of fertile real estate.
These following problems I can see:
First question is, is invading Lal really beneficial for us? He’s currently pacted with us, which means we get some commerce, and he should also be willing to trade technology to us. More concrete, he’ll research Synthetic Fossil Fuels MY 2159 IIRC.
And while conquering Lal’s bases should be a breeze, the question is whether we can keep them. While Zak’s bases are placed relatively concentrated and close to our homelands, Lal’s bases are spread out over a very large territory, and far away from us. In a possible future conflict against the Gaians or Angels, they would be very hard to all defend. And it would be even harder to protect them all sufficiently against probe infiltration. In short, I fear for an imperial overstretch.
A second option, heavily supported by Modo, is to go after Morgan as soon as possible. This would weaken our strongest rival for victory, making us undisputed top doggie.
Here the big problem seems to me a lack of troops. We have as deployable invasion force one cruiser transport, four rovers, one impact infantry, one synthmetal skirmisher and one elite probe team. While this is sufficient to roll over the Arcadian factions, I doubt it is sufficient to take on a human player.
In a few years we could of course start producing some extra cruiser transports and missile marines, but that means fewer investments in economic expansion.
As suggested before, we could of course limit our objectives to not conquering Morgania but merely obliterating all their coastal bases. While our current military is IMO also insufficient to have a large effect before Morgan builds sufficient defences, it is a good start for a harassing guerilla force.
But we can ask ourselves; do we want to obliterate bases? This will permanently damage our reputation, and give us trade sanctions forever, after a few obliterations. Currently we already get 19 energy out of commerce (6 from Morgan), a figure that will no doubt increase as time progresses. So we’d forfeit a good percentage of our income.
A third option is to rid the world of Yang, or at least take some of his bases nearest to us, for example those on our side of the Styx Straits.
While the real estate here is even better than Lals, the best of the Chiron in fact, the Hive is much heavier defended. Progress here would be very slow, and a war would drag on very long. Furthermore we can ask ourselves if we should disturb Yang, who is doing very good work for us: at vendetta with Gaia, and who knows soon Morgan too.
A fourth option for the record would be the Gaians or Angels. They would most likely be easier to conquer than Morgan, but they’re also located further away, so there’s again the danger of an imperial overstretch.
A fifth option is not to attack any faction, but use our already existing military in Arcadia to do some worm farming in those large fungal banks east of Arcadia University. This should also give us some decent cash, and some worms after we’ve founded a Manifold base.
So as you can see, whatever route we take, there are some problems on the road that we’d better discuss and try to solve before starting our next big adventure.
To not litter the University Invasion thread with discussions on what to do after, I thought I'd start this think tank, with the most highly regarded members of the Junta, to ponder about our post-University military actions.
There are several courses we can follow. Unfortunately each of them has several disadvantages. So I was hoping we could discuss here what to do, and how to solve the problems surrounding our choice.
A first option, heavily supported by Googlie, is to go after Lal. This would give us vast tracks of fertile real estate.
These following problems I can see:
First question is, is invading Lal really beneficial for us? He’s currently pacted with us, which means we get some commerce, and he should also be willing to trade technology to us. More concrete, he’ll research Synthetic Fossil Fuels MY 2159 IIRC.
And while conquering Lal’s bases should be a breeze, the question is whether we can keep them. While Zak’s bases are placed relatively concentrated and close to our homelands, Lal’s bases are spread out over a very large territory, and far away from us. In a possible future conflict against the Gaians or Angels, they would be very hard to all defend. And it would be even harder to protect them all sufficiently against probe infiltration. In short, I fear for an imperial overstretch.
A second option, heavily supported by Modo, is to go after Morgan as soon as possible. This would weaken our strongest rival for victory, making us undisputed top doggie.
Here the big problem seems to me a lack of troops. We have as deployable invasion force one cruiser transport, four rovers, one impact infantry, one synthmetal skirmisher and one elite probe team. While this is sufficient to roll over the Arcadian factions, I doubt it is sufficient to take on a human player.
In a few years we could of course start producing some extra cruiser transports and missile marines, but that means fewer investments in economic expansion.
As suggested before, we could of course limit our objectives to not conquering Morgania but merely obliterating all their coastal bases. While our current military is IMO also insufficient to have a large effect before Morgan builds sufficient defences, it is a good start for a harassing guerilla force.
But we can ask ourselves; do we want to obliterate bases? This will permanently damage our reputation, and give us trade sanctions forever, after a few obliterations. Currently we already get 19 energy out of commerce (6 from Morgan), a figure that will no doubt increase as time progresses. So we’d forfeit a good percentage of our income.
A third option is to rid the world of Yang, or at least take some of his bases nearest to us, for example those on our side of the Styx Straits.
While the real estate here is even better than Lals, the best of the Chiron in fact, the Hive is much heavier defended. Progress here would be very slow, and a war would drag on very long. Furthermore we can ask ourselves if we should disturb Yang, who is doing very good work for us: at vendetta with Gaia, and who knows soon Morgan too.
A fourth option for the record would be the Gaians or Angels. They would most likely be easier to conquer than Morgan, but they’re also located further away, so there’s again the danger of an imperial overstretch.
A fifth option is not to attack any faction, but use our already existing military in Arcadia to do some worm farming in those large fungal banks east of Arcadia University. This should also give us some decent cash, and some worms after we’ve founded a Manifold base.
So as you can see, whatever route we take, there are some problems on the road that we’d better discuss and try to solve before starting our next big adventure.
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